Improvement in bung-extractors



E. HENDERER. Buvilg-Ex'tlaotor'.

110,215,351 Patented May 13, 1879.

WUTNESJS 1;@ Nv/@mwa @if-m6@ www EDMOND HENDERER, OF WILMINGTON,DELAWARE, ASSIGN OR rIO RICHARD 'PATENT OEEICE. i

P. PIM, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUNG-EXTRACTORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 215,357, dated May 13,1879; application filed February 24, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMoND HENDERER, of Wilmington, Delaware, haveinvented a new andnseful Improvement in Bang-Extractors, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention consists of a simple, cheap, and eiiective device, fullydescribed hereinafter, for extracting bun gs from barrels.

1n the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side View, partly insection, of my improved bung-extractor; and Fig. 2, a plan view.

A is a stand, the feet a of which are placed on the barrel B when theinstrument has to be used for eXtractin g the bung D from the bungholecof the said barrel. O is the operating screw-rod, terminating below ina tapering screw, fi, and provided at the top Vwith a snitable handle,f, the said screw-rod passing freely through the central enlargement,Z), of the stand A, from which the screw cannot be withdrawn, owing to anut or collar, h.

Above the stand the screw-rod is furnished with a nut, Gr, threadedinternally, to accord with the thread on the rod, and having twoprojecting armsor handles, m m.

In using the above-described instrument, the handled nut G is firstturned in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2, until the distance betweenthe said nut and the stand A is sufficient to permit the introduction ofthe tapering-screwz' into the bung D by turning the screw-rod withoutbeing interfered with by the said nut Gr.

When the tapering screw has penetrated the bung far enough to obtain aproper hold of the same the handled `nut G is brought into play, andthis is screwed down on the rod, so that, bearing on the top of thestand, it will elevate the rod, and with it the bung D, attached to thetapering screw t' of the screw-rod B.

The tapering screw t' is made in one piece with the operating screw-rodO, and is so much less in diameter than the latter as to permit theapplication to the said screw-rod of the nut or collar h, by which thedetachment of the stand A from the instrument is prevented.

I am aware that a corkscrew has been attached to the end of a screw-rod,so that a cork might be withdrawn by manipulating a nut adapted to thesaid rod. This, therefore, I do not claim; but

I claim as my invention- The within-described bung-extractor, consistingof the stand A, the screw-rod (l, and its tapering screw i, the handlednnt G, and the retaining-nut h, adapted to the said screwrod, all beingcombined and constructed as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specilication in thepresence of f' two subscribing witnesses.

EDMOND HENDERER.

Witnesses:

.E. C. DAwsoN,

W. E. MITCHELL.

